This site is an archive of the BSE Inquiry. It is no longer
being updated and some links from the site may no longer work

This site contains a full text version
of the Report of the BSE Inquiry, and all the supporting evidence.

The BSE Inquiry was announced in Parliament on 22 December 1997, and
set up on 12 January 1998, to establish and review the history of the
emergence and identification of BSE and new variant CJD in the United
Kingdom, and of the action taken in response to it up to 20 March 1996;
to reach conclusions on the adequacy of that response, taking into account
the state of knowledge at the time; and to report on these matters to
the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State
for Health and the Secretaries of State for Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland.

Return to an Order of the Honourable the House of Commons dated October
2000 for the Report, evidence and supporting papers of the Inquiry into
the emergence and identification of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) and the action taken in response
to it up to 20 March 1996.